8:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Opening Keynote
Financial Planning at the End of Life
1.5 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA + 1 TDI (Sircon)
Presenter: Carolyn McClanahan, M.D., CFP® I Founder I Life Planning Partners, Inc.
Finances at the end of life present a major concern for both patients and their families. Financial planners are in a unique position to help clients through these difficult times. Dr. McClanahan will review how to comfortably approach end of life situations and work with patients on specific end of life financial concerns. The first part of the session will cover how to respond when a client calls to share their new diagnosis. The next step is how to approach the conversation about finances with serious illness. She will then cover tax planning, income planning, and beneficiary issues that need to be addressed through each stage of advanced illness. You will come away with a new comfort and appreciation on ways to help families through the end of life process.
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM: Networking break with sponsors
9:45 AM - 10:35 AM: Breakout sessions
The Future of Financial Planning: 5 Trends Changing the Way You Do Business Forever
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Alan Moore, MS, CFP® I CEO & Co-Founder I XY Planning Network
The financial planning industry is changing at a rapid pace, and the busy professionals and entrepreneurs running firms within it tend to focus only on the day-to-day operations of their own businesses. Many of us have a tough time picking our heads up to examine how new trends will shape our industry and how we operate as we move forward. This presentation focuses on 5 industry trends that we identify as being critical components to the future of running a successful financial planning firm. These trends include:
- Changing demographics of advisors
- Changing demographics of clients
- Technology
- Crisis of differentiation
- Evolving Business models
This exciting and engaging presentation focuses on the future of financial planning and leaves attendees with actionable tips on how to prepare a firm to thrive in the future.
Tax Strategies for Financial Advisors
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Pearl Balsara, CPA I Senior Tax Manager I HM&M
Throughout this session Ms. Balsara will identify the strategies that will help clients minimize taxes and maximize after-tax earnings. Ms. Balsara will also provide updates on gift and estate tax related issues in order to provide appropriate advice to clients, assist clients with retirement planning, and provide tax-efficient investment portfolio management. Topics covered include:
- Income tax strategies
- Transfer tax strategies
- SECURE Act
- 2022-23 Tax updates
- Reporting by flow-through entities
Personal Liability Risk and Holistic Wealth Management
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA, TDI (Sircon)
Presenters: Tony Boyd, CIC, AFIS I Sr. Vice President, Private Client Group I Hub International Personal Insurance &
Mark Buisson, CIC, CRM, CPRM I Vice President, Sales & Marketing I PURE Group of Insurance Companies
Excess Liability defends individuals from lawsuits that can threaten their wealth, financial future and reputation. This essential coverage is often overlooked or under-utilized as part of holistic wealth management. This course will focus on providing relevant trends, insight into ever-present threats as well as risk management perspective to help the attendee understand, mitigate and properly evaluate exposures for consideration when managing a client's overall risks.
10:35 AM - 10:50 AM: Networking break with sponsors
10:50 AM - 11:40 AM: Breakout sessions
Wealth Preservation and Transfer Strategies for Multi-Generational Families
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Jana Simons, LL.M., J.D., M.S., CFP® I Associate I Meadows Collier Attorneys at Law
This presentation will address issues related to wealth preservation and transfer planning matters for multigenerational clients. We will consider wealth transfer vehicles such as grantor trusts, IDGTs, SLATs, gift/sale planning, etc. and when each might be germane to specific clients' objectives. We will discuss asset protection planning, why it is important, and when various entity structures could be advantageous. As additional considerations for many multigenerational families, charitable giving and insurance planning can play an imperative role in a thorough and comprehensive plan; thus, this presentation will briefly cover these matters. Lastly, this presentation will contemplate the implementation and maintenance of a wealth transfer and preservation plan, the importance thereof, and how advisors can add value through effective execution and plan administration.
Are You Happy Now? Planning for the Present Rather Than the Unpredictable Future
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Carolyn McClanahan, M.D., CFP® I Founder I Life Planning Partners, Inc.
Financial planning predominantly focuses on predicting an unpredictable future. We create detailed plans for our client's financial life, but know these plans are at best a big guess on what actually happens. One sorely neglected item is planning for the present. Is the client happy now? If not, why now? And what can a planner do about it? In this session, Dr. McClanahan discusses how to flip the conversation to planning for the present and what to do if your client isn't happy. She discusses components of life satisfaction and how to create resiliency. Finally, she shows how planning for the present makes planning for the future a much easier exercise.
FinTech: The Truth About the Future of the Financial Advisor
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Matt Reiner, CFA, CFP® I CEO & Co-Founder I Benjamin
Financial advisors have spent the last decade threatened at every turn - being told that technology is going to replace them and that their fees are going to make their careers obsolete. However, even the most innovative and intuitive technology cannot replace what the financial advisor actually manages for clients - human emotion. Every client that comes to an advisor's office comes with emotional baggage that influences their financial decisions. Please join us as Matt Reiner explores the Truth About the Future of the Financial Advisor.
11:40 AM - 12:15 PM: Lunch & FPA State of the Chapter I Diamond Partner Spotlight
12:15 PM - 1:05 PM: Keynote
Keynote: The Capital Markets & the Macroeconomic Environment: A View from 40,000 Feet
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Robert (Bob) Phipps I Director, Partner I Per Stirling Capital Management, LLC
This presentation will provide a 40,000-foot overview of the current macroeconomic environment, including current monetary and fiscal policies, inflation, investor sentiment, market technicals, interest rates and how this extraordinary array of factors is currently manifesting itself in the global capital markets. More importantly, the presentation will consider what this unique mix of factors may imply about the future. The first segment of the presentation will be very macroeconomic in approach, and starts with an overview of the domestic economy from the perspective of both coincident and leading economic indicators. This will lead into a discussion on the outlook for inflation, and its important implications for monetary policy and, by correlation, the capital markets. The next segment will turn its attention to the capital markets themselves, and the implications of the current and anticipated macroeconomic environment. This session addresses the debt and credit markets from a primarily fundamental perspective, and will be followed by a discussion of investor sentiment and how advisors can integrate sentiment into their portfolio strategies. The presentation will conclude with an in-depth discussion of the foreign equity markets from both a fundamental and technical perspective, and what historic precedent suggests about the outlook for 2023 and beyond. Particular emphasis will be placed on inflation, monetary policy, factors, valuations, earnings, and their likely implications for the equity markets.
1:05 PM - 1:20 PM: Networking break with sponsors
1:20 PM - 2:10 PM: Breakout sessions
Charitable Planning Essentials to Grow Your Business
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Nathan Daley, VP I Head of Complex Cases & Michael Wilson I Regional Philanthropic Consultant I Fidelity Charitable
A product agnostic, educational session on how to incorporate charitable planning into an advisor's practice in order to deepen engagement with existing clients, attract new clients, and meet the growing client demand for strategic philanthropic solutions. Throughout this session Mr. O'Neill will give examples of common charitable vehicles, contributable assets, and tax implications as well as best practices from real-life case studies on how to have a charitable conversation.
Planning for Closely Held Businesses (Part 1)
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Gary A. Zwick, Attorney at Law, J.D., LL.M., CPA (inactive), AEP I Partner I Walter Haverfield, LLP
Part 1 of a 2 part presentation - Planning for high net worth individuals and their families where the estate contains significant value tied up in non-marketable closely held business ownership interests presents unique challenges for the planner and requires knowledge in several disciplines. This presentation will highlight the surprising practical considerations that most planners miss, when to use the planning techniques and practical tips to be effective when dealing with this type of client.
Helping Clients Plan for Solo Aging: Holistic Life Planning Beyond Finances
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Carol Marak I Author and Coach, B.S. Behavioral Sciences, Sam Houston State University, Fundamentals of Gerontology Certificate, U.C. Davis
CAROL MARAK LLC, Solo Living Coach and Author
Plotting a rewarding path is key to living longer and more securely. That path requires good health, affordable housing, social connections, spiritual soundness, a strong support network, a fulfilling purpose, enough money, tending to legal matters, and more. Whether clients are solo or married, with or without family nearby, they need a personalized roadmap that will help them improve their lives while growing older. The roadmap will assist all clients confront the startling challenge many will face, "who will look out for me when I'm older?" This seminar will show you how to equip them logically to think through the hurdles of aging alone - to make better choices and take responsibility of the years ahead. Clients of all ages can anticipate the challenges of life leading up to and beyond retirement. The value of starting early, before one faces crisis, will equip clients with knowledge and insight, preparing them more comprehensively to navigate and move forward.
2:10 PM - 2:25 PM: Networking break with sponsors
2:25 PM - 3:15 PM: Breakout sessions
Blockchain Money: The Present and Future of Investing
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Sonia Dumas, CPA I CEO I Curio Haus
In this fast-paced course we'll explore the innovations and options blockchain technology offers to crypto curious clients. As the technology continues to transform the financial landscape more individuals will be asking for advice and services to support their financial goals. Discover the direct and indirect ways individuals can participate in this new asset class. By taking this course, you'll walk away with ideas that will allow you to add value to clients inquiring about cryptocurrencies. Even if you're not allowed to give crypto investment advice, you will still be able to use this information to pair it with financial instruments currently at your disposal. This course is designed to help you strategize for success and not lose clients because of an information deficiency. Blockchain is here to stay, even as regulations are unfolding, the innovation continues to be tested and developed by governments, global institutions, tech firms, and major brands. As Bitcoin makes it's way into every day financial transactions, proactively learning and adapting will prepare financial professionals for the next generation of digital-native investors.
Planning for Closely Held Businesses (Part 2)
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Gary A. Zwick, Attorney at Law, J.D., LL.M., CPA (inactive), AEP I Partner I Walter Haverfield, LLP
Part 2 of a 2 part presentation - Planning for high net worth individuals and their families where the estate contains significant value tied up in non-marketable closely held business ownership interests presents unique challenges for the planner and requires knowledge in several disciplines. This presentation will highlight the surprising practical considerations that most planners miss, when to use the planning techniques and practical tips to be effective when dealing with this type of client.
The Feeling Isn't Mutual: Why Advisors Are Choosing ETFs Over Mutual Funds & How SMAs Compare
1 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Philip McInnis I Chief Investment Strategist I Avantis Investors®
Exchange Traded Funds have been leading the charge with investor flows over the last several years, while equity and bond mutual funds have experienced significant outflows. Beyond ETFs and mutual funds, many advisors are also contemplating the role of SMAs.. But what is it that is spurring this mass exodus from mutual funds. This presentation will compare and contrast ETFs, mutual funds and SMAs and attempt to provide some context around what forces are driving these trends. We will also spend time discussing how we see advisors incorporating ETFs into their practices, and cover some tips and best practices for trading ETFs. Following this presentation we hope attendees walk away with an improved understanding of:
- How these investment vehicles work
- The benefits and limitations of such structure and considerations for using them across asset classes
- The tradeoffs for using each structure to build portfolios for your clients
3:15 PM - 3:25 PM: Networking break with sponsors
3:25 PM - 3:40 PM: Door prize drawings & giveaways
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2023 FPA DFW Conference! One of the many great reasons to attend the annual conference is the chance to win some fantastic door prizes. During this time our Corporate Partners will announce the winners of the door prizes and FPA will announce the winner of the grand prize. Be sure to visit the sponsors for your chance to win! A special thanks goes out to our Corporate Partners for committing to provide conference door prizes.
3:40 PM - 5:00 PM: Closing keynote
Mastering Empathy and Authentic Communication
1.5 CE: CFP, CPA, CIMA, NAPFA
Presenter: Courtland Warren I CEO I OptEffect, LLC
The most important predictor of achievement is one's resilience quotient. What's yours? Do you know? Well you should and more importantly do what it takes to raise it. Your resilience quotient (RQ) measures how quickly you bounce back from adversity and adapt to change. And it turns out that a lot can be determined by your communication and explanatory style. This training will equip you with precise strategy for raising your resilience so that you bounce back from things that make you otherwise quit. Attendees will leave with ideas on how to raise your resilience and the ABCDE of communication through challenge.
With over 10,000 hours logged, Courtland Warren is an authentic and relevant thought leader and master facilitator in large group awareness training. On stage, he looms as an intriguing combination of power, humor and empathy. Courtland’s certitude stems from his stated purpose, “to make new the thoughts of people about what they are capable of being”. Born and raised in Idabel, Oklahoma, he saw education as a path to experiencing more of the world. With this view, Courtland has blazed a trail from his neighborhood Main St., to Johanesberg, South Africa; London, U.K.; and across North America leveraging intelligence, charisma, and voice. No matter the size of the audience Courtland knows each person listens and hears as an individual and has an uncanny ability to connect. Courtland studied organizational behavior and graduated from Oklahoma State University. After a short stint in the oil and gas industry, he was inspired by the need for diversity and inclusion in corporate America and has added value to industry titans Coca-Cola, UPS, GE, Williams, Kimberly Clark and Chick-fil-A. Almost 20 years ago, Courtland decided to “hang a shingle” as a transformational speaker and workshop facilitator and is today a pertinent contributor to empowering people to raise their resilience quotient in order to live a meaningful life.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Post conference reception with FPA Partners & Sponsors
Please join your FPA colleagues in the exhibit hall for cocktails and networking with our Corporate Partners. The generous support from our Partners makes this event possible and we cannot thank them enough for supporting our mission. The mixer will be a great opportunity to foster conversation and make lasting connections.
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